Our Team

What is a Midwife?

A midwife is a trained healthcare professional who is able to provide comprehensive maternity care and management of birth for pregnant persons that are low-risk. Midwives fully understand the normalcy of pregnancy and birth, and are educated and trained to recognize variations from normal, and to intervene when medically necessary. Prenatally, midwives are able to perform necessary lab work and can provide referrals as needed for ultrasound or consultation with a physician. In Washington State, midwives are licensed by the department of health and are able to carry all medications necessary for handling emergencies, oxygen, IV fluids, antibiotics for use in labor, and routine newborn medications. Additionally, they are trained in CPR and Neonatal Resuscitation.

Families planning to have their baby with True North Birth Center will be cared for by our midwifery team: Ashley Jones LM, CPM, MSM, Holly Campbell LM, CPM, Miranda Wentlandt, LM, CPM, MSM, and Meredith Milholland LM, CPM.

They enjoy excellent working relationships with local family medicine physicians and obstetricians, laborist physicians and nursing staff providing 24/7 hospital back up at St. Michael Medical Center, Silverdale, Northwest Family Medicine,CHI Franciscan and University of Washington Maternal Fetal Medicine physicians, and expert perinatal medicine teams in Gig Harbor, Tacoma, and Bellevue. True North Birth Center prides itself on an approach which blends the very hands-on, high touch, low-tech wisdom of midwifery with ready access to specialist medical assistance when necessary.

Meet Our Midwives

Ashley Jones LM, CPM, MSM
Executive Director

Ashley Jones LM, CPM, owner and Executive Director of True North Birth Center, is a military wife (now retired) and mother to four. She began her work in birth in 2011, following her second hospital birth. Initially, Ashley entered birth work as a doula, but quickly realized her goal was to become a midwife. Ashley began birth assisting in 2012, where she attended her first out of hospital births. In August 2014, Ashley was accepted to the bachelor's program with Midwives College of Utah. Ashley graduated with honors in November 2017, and began her master program in January 2018. Ashley graduated with honors, receiving her Masters of Science in Midwifery in August 2019. In addition to her passion of being an active midwife with and running True North Birth Center, Ashley is deeply committed to advancing birth center care through both clinical practice and advocacy. In 2024 she founded the Washington Association of Birth Centers, to which she is now the elected President. At the federal level, she contributed to the development of the MIDWIVES for Service Members Act, a groundbreaking bill to expand access to midwifery care for military families and continues to work toward other legislative goals with the American Association of Birth Centers.

Holly Campbell LM, CPM, MSM

A Kitsap native, Holly Campbell, LM CPM MSM practiced as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor before returning to birth work. She obtained a Masters of Science in Midwifery from Bastyr University in 2015 and completed her clinical training at Treasure Valley Birth Center in Boise, ID and local home birth practice Gumnut Blossom Midwifery. Holly also has a Master of Arts in Psychology and her passion for travel is fueled by her undergraduate degree in Anthropology.
Holly’s experience as a mental health care specialist influences her work every day. She believes that all families should feel like participants, not patients, in their care and endeavors to create supportive and collaborative spaces for people to grow as parents and meet their babies. In her spare time Holly loves to spend time with her hoard of nephews and nieces, garden, and occasionally crochet a mean afghan.

Miranda Wentlandt LM, CPM, MSM

Miranda is originally from the midwest, but calls Washington home. Miranda has always been interested in the medical professions and worked as a CNA in high school, planning to someday be a labor and delivery nurse. She’s always been drawn to birth and remembers feeling left out at the age of 12-13 when she didn’t get to go to births with her mom and other aunts, when cousins were being born.

Miranda eventually attended the University of Washington to complete prerequisites, but life has its twits and turns she changed her major and chose not to apply to nursing school. While working full time for the National Guard she attended a couple of births as a support person for fellow Soldiers and looked into pursuing doula training. While attending the Simkin Center for Allied Birth Professions, Miranda learned about midwifery in the Pacific Northwest and realized that had been her calling all along. She applied to Bastyr University’s Master of Science in Midwifery program and was part of the first class to be offered additional training in an 18 month optional track called Herbal Medicine for the Childbearing Year.

Miranda has worked in both busy birth centers and a majority home birth practice. Most recently she’s been living away from her family to cover maternity leave for a midwife in Wenatchee, WA. Miranda’s husband Jon is very supportive of her career choice and they recently moved to the Kitsap Peninsula with their three teenaged daughters, two dogs, and a shy cat.

Meredith Milholland LM, CPM

Midwifery has been a lifelong calling for Meredith. She was born at home and grew up witnessing several births, which made a lasting impression. After moving up to Washington from California, the stars aligned, and she was able to apprentice with two homebirth practices on the Olympic Peninsula before finishing up her clinical training at the Bellingham Birth Center. During this time, Meredith attended Birthwise Midwifery School, based in Maine, and graduated in 2018. Since becoming licensed in Washington, Meredith has worked with several home birth practices and as a staff midwife at True North Birth Center.

Meredith has personally experienced a spectrum of births with her three children, including a homebirth transfer, an emergent cesarean, and a home VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean). This led to a deep respect for the complexity of birth and the lasting impact that these pivotal experiences can have. She is committed to showing up with compassion, sensitivity, and respect for all families. In 2018, Meredith helped to start Thriving Together, a pregnancy and postpartum support circle in Jefferson County, and continues to serve as a facilitator, creating a safe space for exploring the journey of parenthood. Meredith, her partner Danny, and their three vibrant children live in Port Townsend, where they have a small homestead. When not working, Meredith has a passion for early morning rows, sailing, hiking, drinking tea, and cooking up new and interesting recipes.

Head shots and header photo courtesy of Ashley Grimes Photography and FourFoot Photography.